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How did that many words get used with out once calling it the "Trans-Atlantic Accent"?
by Avshalom 10y ago
How did that many words get used with out once calling it the "Trans-Atlantic Accent"?
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- ajeet_dhaliwal 10y agoYes, I've mostly known it as being referred to as the TransAtlantic accent rather than mid-atlantic.
- SiVal 10y agoDecades ago, I remember it being called the "Mid-Atlantic accent". It was a joke, because it was an artificial accent. The name suggested both a blend of US and England, but also suggested, tongue in cheek, that it was the way people who lived in the middle of the Atlantic (in other words, nobody) actually spoke.
- danek 10y agofwiw i've heard it called both "Trans-Atlantic" & "Mid-Atlantic"